ENGG1003

Digital Literacy and

Computational Thinking – P

Lab 09 Python Data Processing

2022-23 Term 2
Laboratory Environment

 We assume you are using Python IDLE locally

installed on your computer

 Virtual machine provided by MS Azure is also

okay

 You are supposed to have gone through the

lecture contents

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Activities

 Defining and calling functions

 Iteration: for-loop

 Read & process data stored in list/tuple format

 Bonus: conversion between units

 Upload & submit your saved .py file on blackboard

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Academic Honesty

 You must read and observe the University Guideline on Academic

Honesty (https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/)
 You should NOT share your file to others, regardless of your intention
 You should NOT obtain other’s works by any means
 Submitting the wrong file by “accident” will NOT be accepted as an
excuse – so please double-check which file you have submitted

I declare that the lab work here submitted is

original except for source material explicitly
acknowledged, and that the same or closely related
material has not been previously submitted for
another course.

I also acknowledge that I am aware of University

policy and regulations on honesty in academic work,
and of the disciplinary guidelines and procedures
applicable to breaches of such policy and
regulations, as contained in the website.

University Guideline on Academic Honesty:

https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/

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Mandatory Tasks

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Scenario
 Suppose you are now a student helper in the PHED
department, or working as an intern within the health service
sector

 You need to help your senior/boss in processing some data

the team has previously collected over some experiment
participants

 Good news is the data set is already tidied-up, which implies:

 Each row corresponds to a record

 Each column captures an attribute

 The data set is 2-dimensional: only the height (in

centimeters) and weight (in kilograms) are captured

 We are going to process any given data set (in such format)
via Python
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Task 1: Calculate BMI by Function
 Recall from earlier laboratories, the BMI measurement is defined as

 We have done this via excel earlier; we will also do it via Python here
 Important notes on the above definition:
 Weight is measured in kilogram
 Height is in meter scale
 Function definition in python:

# define a function with input parameters

def myfunc(para1, para2):

...
...
return output

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Task 1: Calculate BMI by Function
# define a function with input parameters

def myfunc(para1, para2):

...
...
return output

 Should be noticeable that (para1, para2) are parameters

corresponding to the height and weight in our task at hand;
 Naturally, output will be our target calculation of BMI
 Moreover, we have defined for you the name of myfunc as
calBMI, DON’T CHANGE IT!!!!!!

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Task 1: Calculate BMI by Function

Fill in this
blank!
 The sample code should look like the above
 You may attempt this task by modifying the given line(s)
 Notice the variable bmi should be overwritten upon finishing the task
 Pay attention to unit conversion!

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Task 1: Expected Output

 LHS is the expected output of the correctly crafted python function

 We can validate the result by using excel spreadsheet, viz. RHS
 Good that you guys (generally) performed well in previous Excel’s
labs!
Keep up the good work :-)

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Task 2: Body Check
Body Status BMI
Underweight below 18.5

Normal at least 18.5 BUT below 25.0

Overweight at least 25.0 BUT below 30.0

Obesity 30.0 or above

 According to the WHO body status can be classified by

one’s BMI
 The classification follows the above table
 Our task: build a function bodyCheck such that once
height and weight are input, it calculates one’s BMI by
calBMI and prints the corresponding body status
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Task 2: Sample Code

Fill in these
blanks!!

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Task 2: Expected Output

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Task 3: Automation of Data Processing

heigh bodyCheck bmi = 20.7

weight
t
1 163 55 bodyCheck bmi = 28.3

2 155 68
bodyCheck bmi = 39.7
3 153 93
bodyCheck bmi = 13.4
4 181 44

 Notice that we have been performing the task over few records only
 Each time we have to manually input the data for each record in the console
 This is fine for 4 data records but certainly not for 100,000,000 records!

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Task 3: Automation of Data Processing

heigh bmi = 20.7

weight
t
1 163 55 bmi = 28.3

2 155 68 process()
bmi = 39.7
3 153 93

4 181 44 bmi = 13.4

avg = 25.54

 Now we proceed to process the whole data set automatically

 We set out to do so by iteration
 We will also be able to capture the average BMI as a byproduct

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Task 3: Automation of Data Processing
 We will assume all input data are tidy up as a List of
Tuples
 Suppose there are m data records
 The first data record is stored as (h1, w1)If you forgot what List and
Tuple are and how to use
 The second is (h2, w2), and so on…
them…
 The m-th data record will be (hm, wm)
Check your lecture slides!

The student data set shall admit the form:

[(h1, w1), (h2, w2), ..., (hm, wm)]

 Notice that each record is separated by a comma; and

together they are collected by a pair of square brackets

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List of Tuples: Example
heigh
weight
t
1 163 55

2 155 68

3 153 93

4 181 44

 To give you a numerical example, consider the data set described above
 We can input the data like the RHS picture
 When we type X[i] it gives us the i-th tuple where i starts from 0
 Each X[i] is a tuple of the form (h, w)
 Consult the lecture notes on how to use for-loop to iterate through list X

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Task 3: Automation of Data Processing

Fill in these
blanks
with a for-loop!!

 Let me give you some hints:

 You should call the function bodyCheck(..) in every iteration

 avg_bmi can be calculated using the accumulator total

 You may use the function len(..) to calculate the length of list

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Sample Output
BMI of a person with height=168 cm, weight=74 kg is: 26.218820861678008

A weight of 168 cm and 74 kg...

Your BMI is estimated as 26.218820861678008
Body Status: Overweight
Body check result: 26.218820861678008

Student Data: [(168, 74), (183, 61), (162, 65), (166, 46)]
A weight of 168 cm and 74 kg...
Your BMI is estimated as 26.218820861678008
Body Status: Overweight We will test and check your
A weight of 183 cm and 61 kg... functions with other data
Your BMI is estimated as 18.21493624772313 sets!
Body Status: Underweight
A weight of 162 cm and 65 kg...
Your BMI is estimated as 24.76756591982929
Body Status: Normal
A weight of 166 cm and 46 kg...
Your BMI is estimated as 16.693279140659023
Body Status: Underweight
The average BMI of this batch of data is 21.473650542472363
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Bonus Task

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Scenario
 Alongside centimeters, people also express unit of length in inches
 This bonus part exploits the conversion between inches and
centimeters:
 1 inches = 2.54 centimeters
 Task: write a Python function to:
 Receive a string as input

 Detect all length measurements in the unit inches

 Convert each length to centimeters scale

 Return the converted output as a list of split strings

 Example:
 Sample input: “The model is 10 inches tall”

 Expected output: “The model is 25.4 centimeters tall”

(by given code that joins the returned list of split strings)
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Task
 Goal: know how to modify selective parts of a python list

 Assume: all numbers are followed by the unit "inches"

 Possible approach:

 Split the string into individual words

 Inspect all words in the string, look for some numeric

 If you find a number, that must be followed by “inches”

 Replace the numeric value N with a new value using conversion N*2.54

 Replace the following word “inches” with “centimeters”

 You may consider using these functions: split(), isnumeric(),

int(), using a for-loop with indices, etc.

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Hints and Tips

 You might have used split() to obtain a list of words from the input
string

 Numbers from the output list are string type values also, you will need
to convert the number from a string to a suitable type, before
calculation

Ending Remark

 Words in text processing are also known as tokens

 Spaces are common separators between tokens

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Blackboard Submission

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 Go to Lab 09 Python Data Processing online
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 Under [Attach Files], Browse and select your saved
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